Yury Danilovich

Yury Danilovich (1281-21 November 1325) was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1303 to 1325 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1318 until his assassination in 1325.

Biography
Yury Danilovich was the youngest son of Daniel I of Moscow, the first prince of Moscow. He defended Pereslavl-Zalessky against the army of Grand Duke Andrei III of Russia in 1304, and then contended against Mikhail I of Tver for the title of Yarlik (Tax collector of the Mongol Empire in Russia) as well as for the Grand Duchy of Vladimir. In 1314 he allied with Novgorod against Tver, and seemed to be the winning fighter. In 1315, Uzbeg Khan deposed Mikhail as Grand Prince of Vladimir after Yury married his daughter, but the Tverians convinced Uzbeg that he had taken most of the tax money meant for the Golden Horde. Yury was deposed and assassinated by Dmitri, the son of the late Mikhail. In 1325, Yury led the army of Novgorod against the Swedes and signed a peace with the Swedes, and conquered Veliky Ustyug from the Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal. However, he was assassinated by Dmitri shortly after.